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    1. [WHITNEY-L] Ancestry.com stealing information
    2. Caradwen von Braskat
    3. Hello Cousins This really ticks me off. Just for a lark I went to ancestry.com and put my last name (Braskat) into their search engine. The following link shows what I got: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5519&gsi=-1&db=gedind&prox=-1&f0=BRASKAT&f1=&ti=5519 In checking who submitted this to them I get the following: Submitter rholmes@msrad3.med.uth.tmc.edu It looks to me that someone stole this information from our Whitneygen site or "obtained it" and then shared it. Why do I come to this conclusion you ask? Simple really - they have my grandfather as "Harold Daniel Braskat" when his name was "Howard Daniel Braskat" and this error first appeared in two of the databases on the Whitneygen site. I have recently advised my lovely cousins of the error, and upon checking just now my grandparents names are correct on our site (my grandmothers name was wrong as well though my great-grandmothers is still wrong, but I'll deal with that soon). I'm not sure why I take exception to this happening. I know the information is there on the whitneygen site - out there for all to see, and to even download once they obtain the password from Tim Doyle. However, it still bugs the crap outta me that this was submitted to ancestry.com and the information isn't even correct! GGGrrrrrrrr OK - rant over with - sorry to subjecting you all to this... just wondering what others think of this. Caradwen, whose line is: John1 Whitney - Benjamin Whitney - Mark Whitney - Jason Whitney - Fisher Whitney - James Watkins Whitney - Samuel D. Whitney - Lorenzo Henry Whitney - Zada Marian Whitney - Barbara Doris Shumway - Linda Marian Braskat - Caradwen Lane Braskat _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

    03/19/2001 04:00:36